Server Migration in Hamburg

A server migration is the physical relocation of equipment: from one rack to another, from one room to another, or from one facility to another. For a CTO or IT Director in Hamburg the question is rarely whether the move is possible. It is who disconnects the hardware, who transports it, who reconnects it and who confirms that it works at the destination. Reboot Monkey answers that question per project, in writing, before anyone travels to site.

Hamburg has several colocation buildings that customers move between or consolidate into. Portus/IPHH HH2 (Wendenstrasse 408) stands on Wendenstraße in Hamburg. Migrations here typically start from one of two situations: an existing deployment that has to leave a building, or a new footprint that equipment has to reach. In both cases Reboot Monkey is a third-party datacenter services operator working inside facilities that other companies own and run. It is not a hosting company and does not own datacenters, so the migration is planned around your hardware and your destination, not around a platform of ours.

Data centres in Hamburg, ordered by the number of networks present:

Server migration at Reboot Monkey covers moving equipment between racks, rooms or facilities. Within that scope the work is organised around a short sequence that the customer can follow from first contact to finished job.

The first step is scoping. You describe what has to move, where it is today and where it has to end up, and Reboot Monkey confirms the split of responsibilities. The facts of the arrangement are simple: Reboot Monkey can run the whole physical move or work alongside the customer's own team, and who disconnects, reconnects and tests the equipment is agreed per project. Some customers keep the logical cutover and testing with their own staff and hand over only the physical work. Others hand over the entire move.

When the destination needs connectivity, Reboot Monkey sells the network for the rack. It orders the cross connects and carrier circuits from the facility operator and the carriers present in the facility, and Reboot Monkey engineers install and patch the cabling in your rack. New hardware that arrives alongside the migration can be installed, mounted and cabled as rack and stack work under the same project.

A migration puts production equipment in transit, so continuity of people matters as much as the plan. A second, briefed Reboot Monkey engineer is named as backup for every customer site. If the primary engineer is unavailable on the day, the backup already knows the site and the job. The building itself is run by someone else. NorthC Hamburg stands on Süderstrasse in Hamburg, and the facility operator owns and runs the building, including its power, cooling and access policy. Prices are quoted on request and depend on the customer and the size of the job. A small rack-to-rack move and a full facility exit are different jobs, and the quote reflects that. Because Reboot Monkey is vendor-neutral, the migration is not tied to a particular hardware brand or to a particular destination building.

These terms apply in every facility in Hamburg where Reboot Monkey engineers work.

The data centres we work in hold their own certifications, such as ISO/IEC 27001 and ISO 9001. Ask us for the certificate of your site.

Some migrations in Hamburg are one leg of a wider move, for example consolidating equipment from Hamburg into another German city or the reverse. Reboot Monkey works across Germany, and as of 2026 its field engineers work in 190 countries and more than 400 locations. Where your destination is Frankfurt, the same request process applies, and the arrangement for the Frankfurt end is described in our Server Migration in Frankfurt service. Planning both ends together keeps the source and destination teams aligned on dates, access and cabling.

A migration often changes what is needed around it. When equipment lands in a new facility, the question becomes where it will live and what it connects to. Reviewing Colocation in Hamburg is the natural next step if your move is into a Hamburg building and you still need rack space and connectivity arranged. Reboot Monkey also delivers the physical services that follow a move: remote hands for reboots, cable checks and component swaps, smart hands for work that needs diagnostic judgement, and hardware monitoring of your servers and network equipment by the Reboot Monkey NOC. If a migration leaves retired hardware behind, data center decommissioning covers its removal and disposal, and IT asset disposition covers data wiping, shredding or degaussing, collection and transport.